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The assemblage of this article combines freshly located research literature, directly and indirectly related to a story\u2019s themes, and\/or the personality type of protagonists. Importantly, this assemblage also utilizes text analysis software revealing the relatively invisible (e.g. (in)frequent words, parts of speech, and topics) and Large Language Model (LLM) Generative AI to enrich the interpretation. The use of all these elements helps productively exceed initial intuitions about the story, facilitating creativity. I model the approach using Edgar Allan Poe\u2019s short story, The Black Cat, whose protagonist is a homicidal psychopath. Specifically, the assemblage here includes relevant software-based research (a corpus analysis of homicidal psychopathic language), non-software-based research (psychoanalytical literary criticism of The Black Cat using the empirically validated concept of transference), text analysis software (WMatrix and Datayze), and the LLM Generative AI, \u2018ChatGPT\u2019 (using the freely available LLM GPT-3.5). One use of this approach is as a pedagogy in Literary Studies employing text analysis software (e.g. on a digital stylistics course). Yet given creative adaptability is a key 21st-century skill, with digital literacy\u2014including the use of Generative AI\u2014an important contemporary competence, and with the short story genre universally known, I highlight too the utility of this approach as a university-wide pedagogy for enhancing creative thinking.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.1093\/llc\/fqad050","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2024,3,6]],"date-time":"2024-03-06T23:18:02Z","timestamp":1709767082000},"page":"657-689","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":9,"title":["Digital assemblages with AI for creative interpretation of short stories"],"prefix":"10.1093","volume":"39","author":[{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0003-3424-994X","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Kieran","family":"O'Halloran","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Education, Communication and Society, King\u2019s College London , Waterloo Bridge Wing, London, 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